USDA Forest Service Res. Note RMRS–RN–7. 1999 1

United States

Department of

Agriculture

Forest Service

Rocky Mountain

Research Station

Research Note

RMRS–RN–7

August 1999

Mexico. A bibliography was compiled to furnish a

literature basis for implementing land management activities and planning research endeavors in

this region.

The complete bibliography is available on the

USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research

Station’s Flagstaff office World Wide Web page at

www.rmrs.nau.edu/publications/madrean/. It provides a direct connection to the bibliography’s main

menu. Instructions for accessing the bibliography

are contained in this menu.

The geographical scope of this bibliography is

the Madrean Biogeographic Province north of 27°

latitude including the Madrean Archipelago region within the Southwestern United States (Brown

1982, IUCN Secretariat 1973). Significant literature

from similar ecosystems on adjacent areas has been

included in this bibliography because of significant

ecological overlap.

Organization of Bibliography

Citations are listed alphabetically by author in

categories appropriate to the subject-matter presented. Where a citation could have been placed in

more than one category, it was placed in the category judged most appropriate by the compilers.

Categories in the bibliography are:

• Climate and Weather Patterns

• Conservation and Management

• Economics, Policies, Sociology

• Fire and Fire Effects

• History of Land Use

• Human Impacts

• Hydrology and Watershed Management

Abstract—An online bibliography was compiled

to furnish a literature basis for implementing of

land management activities and planning research

endeavors in the Madrean Biogeographic Province, which includes the Madrean Archipelago region in the southwestern United States. Citations

are listed alphabetically by author in categories

appropriate to the subject-matter presented. The

large number of citations preclude hard-copy publication. The complete bibliography is available on

the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station’s Flagstaff office web site at

www.rmrs.nau.edu/publications/madrean/.

Keywords: Madrean province, climate, conservation, human impacts, hydrology and watershed

management, vertebrate and invertebrate ecology,

recreation and tourism, riparian ecosystems.

A Bibliography for the Northern

Madrean Biogeographic Province

Peter F. Ffolliott1, Leonard, F. DeBano1, Gerald J. Gottfried2,

Daniel P. Huebner3, and Carl B. Edminster4, Compilers

1 Professors, School of Renewable Natural Resources,

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

2 Research Forester, Rocky Mountain Research Station,

USDA Forest Service, Phoenix, Arizona

3 Biological Technician, Rocky Mountain Research

Station, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, Arizona

4 Project Leader, Rocky Mountain Research Station,

USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, Arizona

Introduction

The ecology of the Madro-Tertiary of North

America is poorly known. Furthermore, scientific

literature on ecosystem-based management in this

region is largely uncollected and, therefore, unavailable to planners, managers, and research workers in the Southwestern United States and northern
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• Invertebrate Ecology

• Range Management and Livestock Grazing

• Plant Ecology

• Recreation and Tourism

• Riparian Ecosystems

• Soils and Geological Features

• Vertebrate Ecology

Data Bases Searched

Computerized and published hardcopy data

bases were searched for appropriate literature in

compiling this bibliography. Computerized data

bases searched were:

• FS INFO

• CAB Abstracts

• AGRICOLA

• BIO SIF Previews

• Life Science Collections

• Southwestern Center for Biological Diversity: Grazing Abstracts

• Riparian Bibliography for New Mexico and

the Southwest: Selected Annotations

Published hardcopy data bases searched were:

• Selected References: The Encinal Woodlands (Ffolliott and Gottfried 1992).

• Livestock Management Effects on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Riparian Areas: A Selected Literature Review (Anderson 1993).

• Annotated Bibliography: Ecological Impacts of Livestock Grazing in Western

North America (Fleischner 1993).

• Southwestern Research Station Bibliography (1955-1994) (Sherbrooke 1994).

• A Bibliography for the Northern Madrean

Biogeographic Province (Ffolliott et al. 1994).

• Southwest Watershed Research Center: A

History of Research for Today and Tomorrow (USDA Agricultural Research Service

1994).

• Land Use History of the San Rafael Valley,

Arizona (1540-1960) (Hadley and Sheridan

1995).

• Annotated Bibliography of Reports, Publication, and Thesis on the Appleton-Whittell

Research Ranch Sanctuary (National

Audubon Society 1995).

• Papers presented at the conference on the

Biodiversity and Management of the

Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands of

Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, Tucson, Arizona, September 19-

23, 1994, are also included in the bibliography, along with the relevant literature cited

in these papers (DeBano et al. 1995).

• Annotated bibliography of publications

from the Southwest Watershed Research

Center (USDA Agricultural Research Service 1995).

• Bibliography for Animas Valley of SW New

Mexico (no author).

• A Selected Bibliography: Effects of Fire on

the Madrean Province Ecosystems (DeBano

and Ffolliott 1996).

• The Santa Rita Experimental Range: History and Annotated bibliography (1903-

1988) (Medina 1996).

• The Role and Importance of Disturbances

and Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Borderlands of U.S./Mexico: A

State-of-the-Knowledge Review with Recommendations for Future Research

(McPherson and Weltzin 1996).

• Literature of Wildlife Research in the

Madrean Archipelago: 1800s - 1994

(Morrison et al. 1997).

Thesis and dissertations on topics relevant to the

Madrean Biogeographic Province, and the literature cited therein, were also reviewed in preparing

the bibliography. Other literature, including office

reports, field-trip summaries, map references, and

unpublished but relevant materials, which are typically found found in library special collections, are

also included.
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Acknowledgments

Financial support from the Cooperative Park

Studies Unit, U.S. Geological Survey, United States

Department of the Interior, to the School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona,

enabled initiation of this bibliography. This work

culminated in publication of a preliminary bibliography of literature pertaining to the Madrean Biogeographic Province (Ffolliott et al. 1994). William

Halvorson, Unit Leader, and Peter Bennett are

thanked for their assistance in initiating this effort.

Subsequent funding, provided by the Borderlands

Ecosystem Management Program, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, and

the School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, enabled completion of the bibliography.

Compilers of the bibliography gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Diego ValdezZamudio, José Villanueva-Díaz, and R. Roy Pollisco,

School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona; and José Luis León and Sergio Ticul

Alvarez, Terrestrial Biology Division, Centro de

Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C., La

Paz, Baja California Sur, México, whose contributions in searching the data bases were indispensable. The bibliography was electronically compiled

by Tammy Parke, Lori Strazdas, Maggie Bathory,

Parissa Sohie, and Stacy Pease, students at the

University of Arizona, whose collective efforts are

also greatly appreciated.

Literature Cited

Anderson, S. 1993. Livestock management effects on wildlife,

fisheries, and riparian areas. Elko, NV: U.S. Department of

Agriculture, Forest Service, Humboldt National Forest.

Brown, D. E., ed. 1982. Biotic Communities of the American

Southwest-United States and Mexico. Desert Plants. 4:1-342.

Ffolliott, P. F.; Gottfried, G. J. 1992. Selected references: The

encinal woodlands. In: Ffolliott, P. F.; Gottfried, G. J.; Bennett,

D. A.; Hernandez C., V. M.; Ortega-Rubio, A.; Hame, R. H.,

tech. coords. Ecology and management of oak and associated

woodlands: Perspectives in the southwestern United States

and northern Mexico. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-218. Fort Collins,

CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky

Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 215-224.

Ffolliott, P. F.; Gottfried, G. J.; DeBano, L. F.; Ortega, A. 1994. A

bibliography for the northern Madrean biogeographic province. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, School of Renewable Natural Resources.

Fleischner, T. L. 1993. Annotated bibliography: Ecological impacts of livestock grazing in western North America. Prescott,

AZ; Prescott, College.

DeBano, L. F.; Ffolliott, P. F. 1996. A selected bibliography:

Effects of fire on the Madrean Province ecosystems. Tucson,

AZ; University of Arizona, School of Renewable Natural

Resources.

DeBano, L. F.; Ffolliott, P. F.; Ortega-Rubio, A.; Gottfried, G. J.;

Hamre, R. H.; Edminster, C. B., tech. coords. 1995.

Biodiversity and management of the Madrean archipelago:

The Sky Islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Gen Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-264. Fort Collins,

CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky

Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

Hadley, D.; Sheridan, T. E. 1995. Land use history of the San

Rafael Valley, Arizona (1540-1960). Gen. Tech. Rep. RMGTR-269. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

IUCN Secretariat. 1973. A Working System for Classification of

World Vegetation. Occas. Pap. International Union for the

Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Medina, A. L. 1996. The Santa Rita Experimental Range: History

and annotated bibliography. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-276.

Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest

Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment

Station.

McPherson, G. R.; Weltzin, J. F. 1996. The role and importance

of disturbances and climate change on plant communities in

the borderlands of U.S./Mexico: A state-of-the-knowledge

review with recommendations for future research. Final

Rep. Fort Collins, CO; U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

Morrison, M. L.; Krausman, P. R.; Sureda, M.; Fox, L. M. 1997.

Literature on wildlife research in the Madrean Archipelago:

1800s - 1994. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-290. Fort Collins, CO:

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

National Audubon Society. 1995. Annotated bibliography of

reports, publications, and thesis on the Appleton-Whittell

Research Ranch Sanctuary. Elgin, AZ: National Audubon

Society.

Sherbrooke, W. C. 1994. Southwestern Research Station bibliography. Portal, AZ: American Museum of Natural History.

USDA Agricultural Research Service. 1994. Southwest Watershed Research Center: A history of research for today and

tomorrow. Tucson, AZ: U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center.

USDA Agricultural Research Service. 1995. Annotated bibliography of publications from the Southwest Watershed Research Center. Tucson, AZ: U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center.
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